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Outside thousands of U.S. banks last week, queues of Americans waited to take part in the biggest war-bond redemption spree of the war. The rush came just before Treasury Secretary Morgenthau announced a Sixth War Bond Drive, to start Nov. 20, and promised a seventh. The queues were caused by the Treasury's new redemption system, making bonds as easy to cash as Government checks...
President Schram's warning closed the barn door a little late: rumors had already touched off a buying spree in low-priced auto shares. Through the grapevine from Detroit poured an endless cackle of tips and gossip as the auto industry jockeyed for postwar position. Biggest whoppers from the gossip mill last week concerned the future of the four Fisher brothers (TIME, Aug. 14). The dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker...
...farmer was being rescued again by the War Food Administration. Fresh from its six-month egg-buying spree which supported egg prices-much to the housewife's disgust-WFA started buying wheat last week. Under the pressure of forecasts of a billion bushel crop, wheat prices had sagged to a 1944 low. But a thumping two million bushel order placed in Kansas City and Minneapolis by WFA snapped prices up four cents a bushel...
Freed from the Fascist muzzle, Rome's journalists went on a publishing spree. Among many new periodicals, dyed every shade of political opinion, appeared Voce d'Operaia (Workmen's Voice), self-styled organ of the "Catholic Communists...
...Maine in 1905 with a B.S. in civil engineering, a summer's work on dam construction on the Yellowstone River had sold him to a life of harnessing U.S. rivers. "While I was learning to build dams," Crowe reflects, "the nation got started on the biggest dam-building spree of all time. If I'd been born sooner or later, I'd have missed the boat...